Episode #852
May 31, 2025
A one-word description of my personality is determined.
Every situation can be addressed and assembled like a puzzle. Group the shapes. Group the colors. Research every aspect to visualize the big picture. Define the edges of the project to understand its limits. Apply all the straight-edged pieces to the edge. Understand and build a solution from the outside in. Eventually, at the end of the process, the last piece of the puzzle will be obvious.
Don’t stop.
Keep going.
Determine your fate.
The hardest part of finishing a project is finishing the project. Starting is just a decision. Finishing is a determination. I find that when I am stalled, stepping back and reviewing the big picture will map out a way forward. Sometimes a step or two backward will find the road not taken.
“And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.”
— The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost
Determination is also about not giving up.
“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
— Ulysses, Lord Alfred Tennyson
Often, the solution to a problem is in the failures of pursuing it.
When Thomas Edison was asked why he failed 10,000 times to make a working light bulb, he said,
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
In my life I have cultivated unshakable focus, resilience, persistence, self-belief and inner drive.
Even when everything around me whispers, “Stop,” there is a voice in my head that says, “Keep going.”
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I saw the pic of you outside the plane, and I wanted to remind you that there are better seats inside.
My definition of “better” is different that a pilot’s, I think.